The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-12
WORKsIEN, TO ARMS!

Men of labor, this afternoon the bloodhounds of
your oppressors murdered six of your brothers at
McCornick's. Why did they murder thenE Because
they dared to be dissatisfied with the LOT which your
eppressors have assigned to them. They demanded
of the fact that thus people most effectively
ro
early in the morning till late night; have suffered
dren You have done everything to fill the Golfers of
your masters-everything for them; and now, when
YOU approach them and inplore them to make your
burden little lighter as reward for your sacrifices
they send their bloodhounds-the police-at you in
ton. Slaves, we ask and eonare you BY all that is
sacred and dear to avengs the atrocious murder
and which win likely be committed upon you to-rnor
row. Laboring men, Hercules you have arrived at
sS for freedom and bread, IF
you decide for the latter. then do delay moments
Think Of the heroes whose blood has fertlized the
road progress liberty and humanity, and to strive
and become worthy of them. YOUR BROTHERS
Neebe and other notables Of the A. A., took
horses, and in person scattered the circular
broadcast not failing to leave copies with the
rank an d file of the International armed
tions" gathering in Greifs Hall, 81 West Lake
street. That the circular gave the impulse to
the action of the armed sections at this Monday
night meeting, and inspired the adoption of the
plan OF the bomb throwing agreed UPON, is ap-
parant from the fact that its contents were first
fully discussed. Then the complete detailed
plan of the particular method of inaugurating
the Wholesale murder for which they originally
organized was formally considered aud adopted,
the time for the slaughter being left for the
Arbeiser Zeitung to designate by publishing the
was the work of Adolph Fischer. Who had come
to the meeting straight from the Aroelter Zeit-
une, where he had been assisting Spies and
Schwab. That Fischer was carrying out the
plans of his superiors appesrs more clearly from
the circumstance that 1t was he who raansu-
vered the armed sections out of their idea of
holding the Hay market meeting in the morning
instead of at night, as Spies and the other lead
ers had decided.
A darker picture is not to be found in history
than this spectacle of four-score murderous con-
sprators IL the wretched saloon basement, re-
morselessy plotting the massacre that occurred
not a hundred yards distant, before another
midnight passed. Rudolph Schnaubelt, the
thrower of the Hay arket bomb, among
the eighty more assassins who composed this
horrible meeting. Though adjournment did not
come till long after IL it was not o'clock next
morning, Tuesday, when Louis Ling, member
of this identical earned section" opened the
chest of dynamite that had lain untouched in his
lying since four days before Under his
pert directions. six Of the men who attended the
murder meeting of the previous night, quickly
set to work then and there filling globular
shells with dynamite.
Early the hour, Fischer was also at
work getting out the hand bills calling the hay
market mass-meetine. The hand bills last
appear in full force!" What Spies, Schwab and
the other leaders doing that day may be
partly inferred from the burning appeals for re-
estance and calls ITO Arms" that appeared in
their newspaper organs that evening. '.Ruhe."
psnned by Spess own hand stared out of the
Arbeiter Zeitung. After the papers were OF
and their editors had swallowed hasty supper.
it is known that Spies, Parsons. Schwab,
Fielden. Fischer and other ruling spirits, most.
ly members of the self-same armed sections"
that held the Greif's Hal. conclave, went into
close session at the International headquarters
in the Arbeiter Zeitung building, where reports
by messenger and telephone were received as
the moments sped.
Lngg's crew of bomb-makers still assd :
uously at work For some reason he himself
was unable to remain with them all the time,
and the evening found him curslng their slow
progress. 1t was some time after 1:30 p M
the hour mentioned for the Haynarket meeting
to begin-when Lingg put into a little trunk
what bombs were ready-some fifty or sixty
and started with his burden for the appointed
rendezvous. an Anarchists saloon by,
known as Neff's Hall, 50 Cyoourn avenue. He
was met on the way oy messenger. who had
come to hurry him along. The trunk was left
open in passage-way of the saloon, and with
out more ado men began dropping in quietly,
alone or in couples, pocketing a bomb two
EACH and vanishing into the darkness. This
celebrity may have somewhat modified Lingg.
but his delay not the only stumb bling block
of the 'sreds"
Twenty-f thousand people. the Anarchist
leaders estimated, would be gathered together
il the Haymarket- This was not extrava-
CANT expectation when u 900 had been SO easily
massed near McCormick's. But fear of further
rioting kept pretty much everybody at home ex-
cept about 2 600 men, nearly all of Thorn unmis-
takably Anarchists. Undoubtedly the small
ness of the crowd made the Anarchist leaders
pause. '"Fhe social revolution" backed by
mob OF workingmen D. 900 strong, had changed
to prospective fight bet ween Anarchists alone on
one side and the police in force on the other Il
was evident to the most usual spectator In the
Havmarket that a hitch existed somewhere. and
apparently the meetings managers were all
completely at
The great dim-lighted square WAS a decidedly
uncanpy ecene. with its scattered groups of ges-
ticnla.;ng, trampish-looking occupants lining
the sidewalks and pouring in and out of the
rickety surrounding saloons. The AKbeiter